Modo di fare il pane. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Modo di fare il pane.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – West Indies; Indigenous peoples – Hispaniola; Indigenous women – North America; Cooking (Bread); Fire pot cooking; Skillet cooking
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Hispaniola; Haiti; Dominican Republic; Antilles, Greater; West Indies; North America; Venice; Republic of Venice; Italy
Description: Here Indigenous women make bread inside a shelter comprised of a thatched roof and one wall. The woman on the right grinds corn and cooks it over a fire, the woman on the left rolls dough, and the woman in the middle grills the bread on a flat surface over a fire. This image is identical to one found on page 56 verso of Venice, 1565.
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter); Heirs of Giovanni Maria Bonelli (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23684
Language: ita
Source Name: La Historia del Mondo Nuovo
Parent Collection: 1572 Benzoni
Image: mta_23684_OBJ.png